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At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. it was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. that's all i wanted to do, not thinking that i would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.

-Pam Grier

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At The Beginning, My Ambition Was Never

Pam Grier

At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. it was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. that's all i wanted to do, not thinking that i would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.

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Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? if the government's running it, if obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? and then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? why does tuition always go up? guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?

The word 'repulse': i hate this word. i believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent dinosaur jr. song. a compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. so why would you ever say 'repulse'? this word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. renee looked it up and i was wrong. but i still kind of think i'm right.

Do not several sorts of rays make vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite sensations of several colours, much after the manner that the vibrations of the air, according to their several bignesses excite sensations of several sounds? and particularly do not the most refrangible rays excite the shortest vibrations for making a sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of rays, vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make sensations of several intemediate colours?

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